Vinay Vithal Deodhar (3 December 1948 – 18 January 2015) was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University. He worked in the area of algebraic groups and representation theory.[1]

Early life

Deodhar was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India in 1948.[2]

Career

Deodhar earned his Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 1974 for his work On Central Extensions of Rational Points of Algebraic Groups done under the supervision of M. S. Raghunathan.

After his doctorate, he was invited to join the School of Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Simultaneously he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton during 1975-77 and then a visiting professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1981 he was appointed to a professorship at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, where he remained until his death in 2015. He spent a further period as a visiting scholar at the IAS in 1992-93.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Profile: Vinay Deodhar". Indiana University. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Obituary - Vinay Deodhar" (PDF). Indiana University Department of Mathematics Alumni Newsletter. August 2015. p. 9. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Community of Scholars Profile: Deodhar, Vinay Vithal". Institute for Advanced Study. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "Professor Vinay Deodhar dies at 66". indiana.edu. 5 February 2015.



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